Timeline: History of Youtube

Period: Jan 9, 1969 to Nov 4, 2015

Birth of Internet to Now

Nov 4, 1969

First working internet

Originally called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network). Funded by the U.S. Deparartment of Defense, it was pretty much a school network.

Oct 5, 1990

ARPANET Obselete

With the internet being widely available to the public starting in the late 80s, ARPANET was decommissioned.

Feb 14, 2005

Youtube is Registered

Youtube was registered by ex-Paypal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim.

Apr 23, 2005

First video

The Video
Posted by co-founder Jawed Karim it was entitled "Me at the Zoo".

May 1, 2005

Youtube's Beta Site

With only 5 menus on the site, which were Home, Favourites, Messages, Videos and My Profile.

Jun 6, 2005

The NBC Deal

NBC asked the Youtube providers to pull the clip "Lazy Sunday" from SNL and put it on both sites. This brought major attention to both companies and paved the way for later and bigger pertnerships.

Sep 6, 2005

First Viral Video

The ad
The first video to get 1 million hits was a Nike commercial.It featured the Brazilian soccer player Ronaldinho.

Dec 15, 2005

Out of Beta

The creators of Youtube were able to launch Youtube out of Beta following a $3.5 Million investment from Sequoia Capital in November of the same year.

Oct 6, 2006

Google buys Youtube

Seeing the potential in Youtube, Google bought the video sharing site for $1.65 billion. At the time, Youtube was about 65 employees strong.

May 6, 2007

Partner Program

The Partner Program in Youtube lets people be paid depending on how popular their videos are. Some people are actually able to make a living off of this. Some have even earned up to 6 figure salaries.

Jul 6, 2007

The CNN Deal

Thanks to the CNN deal, people were able to post their questions for the presidential debate the next year. 7 out of the 16 candidates even announced candidacy on Youtube.

Aug 9, 2007

Youtube's First Ads

Everyone has seen those little ad banners on the bottom of the video. Those were the first ads on Youtube which were added by Google.

Apr 9, 2009

VEVO

VEVO is the service used by music artists on Youtube to distribute their music videos. This service was created by Youtube to fix a bond with the record companies.